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What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] florge@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most of these kind of make sense, then you get stock of a gun

[โ€“] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 points 3 months ago

Probably originally something offensive that sounded similar in that language, and was forced to be changed to be more civilized.